I wonder what it's like to be bono?

In My Humble Opinion
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That’s it. I wonder what it’s like to be the lead singer of the most loved band in recent history.

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Where are you getting that U2 is “the most loved band in recent history”? I mean, yes, Bono is famous and just like every other famous person I’m sure it has its ups and downs. But that seems like a rather definitive thing to say in IMHO… personally I can’t stand U2.

But, to answer your question, I’m sure it kicks ass. :slight_smile:

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We will never know.
Sonny died in early 1998, so whatever it felt like to be Bono is something Sonny took with him to the grave.

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Decades of second-guessing himself … “Did I really pick the best nickname I could have?”

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Heads: Bono
Tails: Boner

If only the coin had landed the other way up.

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[beavis]
Yeah…mmmheh yeah…and every morning his mom would yell at him, “Get up, Boner! Boner! Get up, dammit!”
[/beavis]

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The Edge, The Edge, The Edge why couldn’t I have picked that name. Who else had a name with “The” in it.

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I second what DooWahDiddy said. It probably pretty much rocks.

Hah! Get it? Rocks? 'cuz he’s a rock star?

Yeah…I’m done…

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The RZA? The GZA? The Flash? THE ROCK?

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Sting dies and goes to Heaven. He gets to the Pearly Gates and St. Peter tells him he has to go to Rock and Roll Heaven. St. Pete leads the way through a backstage door and there they are in Rock and Roll Heaven. Sting is looking around, amazed and starstruck at all the great, dead rockstars. He sees Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham and John Entwhistle all playing in a supergroup. He sees Janis and Elvis. He sees Kurt Cobain talking to Cliff Burton and Ray Charles. He can’t believe it.

Then he notices Bono standing on a stage wearing sunglasses with his arms outstretched. He’s singing and Stevie Ray Vaughn is playing guitar for him.

Sting says to St. Pete, “That’s strange, I didn’t know that Bono had died. He must have died about the same time as me. What a coincidence.”

St Peter says, "Oh, that’s not Bono, that’s Jesus. He just likes to pretend he’s Bono.

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My favorite punch line to that joke is:

Sting says: “Awesome! Rock and Roll Heaven!”

Ray Charles says: “Should we tell him?”

Then, Karen Carpenter comes out, sits at the drums and says: “OK people, Close To You on three.” :smiley:

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      • Bono probably feels pretty pissed off. All this time he was thinking that everybody bought his albums because he was such a great philosopher for his generation, when all they really cared about was a silly beat they could dance to.
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I remember wayyyyyyyyyyy back in the eighties having Bono’s pic slipped behind my bus pass. I also stood outside a resturant and watched him eat his dinner. Was I a pathetic teenager? Why yes I was. Thank you for asking. Bono was my god. I soooooooooo remember the whole Live Aid thing. I thought he was cooler then cool.

I can’t help it. I love their old stuff but I hate the “I’m a ginormous rock star” stuff. When he toured with BB King I was still in love but when the fly glasses arrived I stopped feeling the love.

He is obviously a bloke who has money that talks. He has done good things with that “power”. He is also not a stupid man. He has used his profile to support good things. It is amazing that we live in a world where a bloke who can sing can meet with the people he does. It is a SAD thing that world leaders give time to the lead singer of some band. I’m glad he is a good person, who wants to make good things happen but no one should pay this much attention to musician…or maybe some politicians should pay more attention.

I’m not hating the latest album. OK I am liking it. I am no longer feeling the stalker-lust :smiley:

Sunday Bloody Sunday is the best song ever! (ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the memories)

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Decidedly odd I would imagine. Years ago I read an interview with Bono which was conducted over breakfast in a cafe in Paris (I think). During the course of the interview Bono stripped off all his clothes and ended up sitting naked with the female reporter.

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There’s a new book out called Killing Bono : I Was Bono’s Doppelganger by Neil McCormick. It’s by and about a guy that had a lot in common with Bono and paralleled him for a while, but didn’t quite make it, with an intro by Bono. It looked kind of interesting when I was looking through it in the bookstore, although I didn’t pick up a copy.

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Up: Fabulous Wealth and prestige.

Down: In an interview after Rattle and Hum I heard him tell a reporter that he couldn’t hang out in pubs in Ireland because there was always someone throwing stuff at him for his ‘Fuck the revolution’ spiel in the movie.

So there are ups and downs, I’m sure. But I’m also sure it balances on the ‘ups’ side of the scale.

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It must be pretty cool, but he’s one cocky mutha. I just saw a documentary on Charles Bukowski, and Bono was interviewed. I mean, come on, what does Bono know about Bukowski that the rest of us don’t? Not much. He was just a fan. Now he gets interviewed for the documentary, probably so they could advertise it as having interviews with Bono.

Still, musically he’s a genius, and he does a lot of good, so I think he’s aiight.

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I agree, the whole band are geniuses. I read long ago that they started out jamming together when they could barely play a note, and they basically all learned to play music together. Early hits like ‘I Will Follow’ are starkly simple in terms of instrumental technique, but still powerful. And they’ve grown a great deal as musicians since then.

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You’d suffer from the inability to count to four in spanish. Curses! I knew there would be an awful drawback!

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      • This is not so rare as one might think. There are many bands that when they began, literally could not play their instruments.
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